Musicana - The Sequence of Fantasia

[McTwisp]

Musicana was a movie project from Disney Animation Studios, considerated since 1970 by the illustradors Wolfgang Reitherman(one of The Nine Old Men) and Mel Shaw, as a sequence for the animation movie Fantasia. Several conceptual art came to be prepared for the segments of this movie, many produced by John Lasseter(Pixar Animation Studios's owner), early in his career. A documentary on this unrealized work appears in the 2010 edition of Fantasia.




The initial idea was to design sequences what you traveled through in specific countries, accompanied by a composition or composer directly related to the country.




AFRICA


This sequence, is officially called The Rain God.










This sequence tells a story about a little monkey, as stealing the Rain God's Diamond, he fight to survive the God's rage.















LATIN AMERICA


In this sequence, have many themes inspirated about the Aztec and Inca Folklore.












And possibly the musics what would being used in the Soundtrack, would be the Yma Sumac, a peruvian soprano, who Walt Disney met personally before she became a international singer.













ARABIA


In this sequence, from the Scheherazade's work, from the russian composer Rimsky-Korsakov, shows scenes of the classics arabians tales One Thousand and One Nights, specially Ali Babá and The Fourthy Thiefs.


















CHINA


this sequence will be references to China, wich was officially entitled The Emperor's Nightingale. based on the fairy tale published by Hans Christian Andersen, entitled The Nightingale, wich the protagonist would be Mickey Mouse. John Lasseterwas coordinating this sequence.


















UNITED STATES


In this sequence, a group of frogs, two of them based on Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald, play jazz in the southern United States until the passage of a large steam vessel moves across the scene, taking them on the margin of the river.





















FINLAND


A  Jean Sibelius's composition was choised to compose this sequence where a battle between the Ice's God and the Sun's God wich produced the myriad lakes of Scandinavia.












Unfortunately, the project was eventually canceled in 1991. His illustrations are stored in the archives of the Disney studios, where there are several abandoned projects that are waiting to be awakened.




"Good projects never die." - Walt Disney.




















































































In 2000, is released Fantasia 2000.













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